Snaky

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Snaky \Snak"y\, a.
     1. Of or pertaining to a snake or snakes; resembling a snake;
        serpentine; winding.
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              The red light playing upon its gilt and carving gave


              it an appearance of snaky life.       --L. Wallace.
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     2. Sly; cunning; insinuating; deceitful.
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              So to the coast of Jordan he directs
              His easy steps, girded with snaky wiles. --Milton.
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     3. Covered with serpents; having serpents; as, a snaky rod or
        wand. --Dryden.
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              That snaky-headed, Gorgon shield.     --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  snaky
       adj : resembling a serpent in form; "a serpentine wall"; "snaky
             ridges in the sand" [syn: {serpentine}, {snakelike}]
       [also: {snakiest}, {snakier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  146 Moby Thesaurus words for "snaky":
     Machiavellian, Machiavellic, aberrant, aberrative, acute,
     ambagious, amphibian, anfractuous, anguiform, anguine, arch,
     artful, astute, batrachian, cagey, canny, circuitous,
     circumlocutory, clever, colubriform, convolutional, crafty,
     crawling, creeping, crocodilian, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep,
     deep-laid, departing, designing, desultory, deviant, deviating,
     deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, diplomatic, discursive,
     eellike, errant, erratic, excursive, feline, flexuose, flexuous,
     foxy, froggy, guileful, indirect, ingenious, insidious, inventive,
     involute, involuted, involutional, knowing, labyrinthine,
     lizardlike, lumbriciform, mazy, meandering, meandrous, ophidian,
     out-of-the-way, pawky, planetary, politic, rambling, ready, repent,
     reptant, reptile, reptilelike, reptilian, reptiliform, reptiloid,
     resourceful, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, roving, ruffled,
     saurian, scheming, serpentiform, serpentile, serpentine,
     serpentlike, serpentoid, sharp, shifting, shifty, shrewd, sinuate,
     sinuose, sinuous, slick, slippery, slithering, sly, smooth,
     snake-shaped, snakelike, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic,
     stray, subtile, subtle, supple, swerving, tactical, toadish,
     torsional, tortile, tortuous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, turning,
     twisting, twisty, undirected, vagrant, veering, vermiform,
     viperiform, viperish, viperlike, viperoid, viperous, vipery,
     vulpine, wandering, wary, whorled, wily, winding, wormlike,
     wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag